.24 rush hour does not exactly exist on the twenty five mile stretch between the south and north shores of lake tahoe . traffice may be slowly by gawkers by people pulling over to park at the nude beaches , by the construction projects thatt last all summer . but the population forr aa real traffic jam isn't there .
just barely over te neveda state line , extending for a few blocks along high way 50 on the suth shore , the gaming industry reigned suprreme ," gaming " had a much nicer ring than " gambling " gaming implied ingenuity , and nina did admit poker and blackjack to a realm where gambling could ascend into skil . most people played the slots , though , and everyone knew that slots were the main source of casino revenue .
the casino distict 's face lift was almost complete , down to a new gondola gliding up the slopes of heavynly ski resort . old cecil's liquors with its narrow asles and products piled to the ceiling had been replaced by the new cecil's , twicw as expensive , a neon sign adverting its new location , too brightly lit , too neatly stocked .
cecil's also had new , twenty first first century neighbors ; a book store , a stabucks . the village center - brand new , built with a heavy hand from fieldstone - held a hotel and expensive shops . on her left , the unregenerate orginals , the T- shirt shops and tchotchke vendors , stuck it our behind shabby storefronts , still fielding plentyof customers . raley's supermerket had been gussied up into chatlet style . as she passed that coner , nina searched for the lone tree in the parking lot , which had once figured in a murder case she had handled .
just barely over te neveda state line , extending for a few blocks along high way 50 on the suth shore , the gaming industry reigned suprreme ," gaming " had a much nicer ring than " gambling " gaming implied ingenuity , and nina did admit poker and blackjack to a realm where gambling could ascend into skil . most people played the slots , though , and everyone knew that slots were the main source of casino revenue .
the casino distict 's face lift was almost complete , down to a new gondola gliding up the slopes of heavynly ski resort . old cecil's liquors with its narrow asles and products piled to the ceiling had been replaced by the new cecil's , twicw as expensive , a neon sign adverting its new location , too brightly lit , too neatly stocked .
cecil's also had new , twenty first first century neighbors ; a book store , a stabucks . the village center - brand new , built with a heavy hand from fieldstone - held a hotel and expensive shops . on her left , the unregenerate orginals , the T- shirt shops and tchotchke vendors , stuck it our behind shabby storefronts , still fielding plentyof customers . raley's supermerket had been gussied up into chatlet style . as she passed that coner , nina searched for the lone tree in the parking lot , which had once figured in a murder case she had handled .
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